so if i'm eating more than 70 grams of carbs each day
and yet i'm in a ketogenic state am i doing keto or how is it possible that
children can be in a ketogenic state when they're not doing any special kind of diet well in fact
being in a ketogenic state is the natural state of the body and so if you're metabolically healthy
you will get into a ketogenic state as long as the carbohydrates that you're eating are low
enough for your body to put you in that state because it's the state the body wants to be in
also anytime we fast we will go into a state where our body is using fat for fuel which is
the definition of being in a ketogenic state this is different than the fact that the keto diet
is defined as eating 50 grams of carbs or less and i'll say that doctors have taken this idea
a step further and they've said if you are doing a keto diet because you have any weight to lose
any metabolic issues including insulin resistance then in fact you're probably going to need to be
20 grams of carbs or less which is why you keep hearing keto defined as 20 grams of carbs or less
because doctors say that's what you'll actually need to do to overcome the metabolic problems
and get your body into a ketogenic state which means a state where you're burning fat for fuel
a question that i get asked often once i've lost the weight can i just go back to eating
30 40 up to 50 grams of carbs since that's the true limit of keto as long as i don't
go over will i stay in a ketogenic state and to answer this question i want to give an analogy
if i buy a brand new car and throughout the use of that car i put the manufacturers recommended gas
and the manufacturer's recommended replacement parts and any other fluids that need to go
into that vehicle i always replace it with the manufacturer's recommendation over the
course of life of that car there might be an occasion where even if it happened once a year
i pull up at my typical gas station and they don't have the manufacturer's recommended gas
and i need to put in the cheaper gas this one time but only happens once a year chances are very good
that my car will still perform appropriately and it will still last the duration of the time that
the manufacturer would expect it to it's going to make it that warranty without any big issues
because i did all the things that they recommended that i did compared to i buy the same car
but rather than following the manufacturer's recommendations i put the cheapest gas
i put the cheapest replacement parts i put the cheapest oils and fluids that i need to put in
the vehicle chances are very good that the engine of this vehicle is going to get gummed up and have
problems now when the engine gets gummed up and have problems when i go to visit the repair center
to figure out how are we going to solve this very likely going to tell me one of two things
they're going to say either well we can take the engine apart clean up all the problems
put the engine back together and then moving forward you do what the manufacturer recommended
but they might also tell me well we'll drain all the fluids out of this vehicle
and we'll take out any parts that are not manufactured and put those back in
and then from this point forward put the best quality gas the best quality oils and fluids
and other things in your vehicle and that's going to help to clean up the poor quality
you had in before and over time your vehicle will eventually get to a standard where it's
better so in scenario number one that be like if when it was time for my child to start eating
solids i fed my child only healthy so protein and fat and the small amount of carbohydrate
that stays that allowed the child to stay in a ketogenic state right from the get-go
and as the child grows i made sure that that's what was happening most of the time
and if on the odd occasion the child had a small amount of extra it didn't matter
because the next day they wouldn't have that and they back in their ketogenic state compared to
having the same child grow up on a very regular basis having too much carbohydrate eventually
they will become insulin resistant eventually they will have metabolic damage and eventually
they would need to go on a ketogenic diet to reset their body and get back into a healthy situation
and that need to reset their body would then mean that moving forward they might
not be able to be in a ketogenic state if they eat more than 20 grams of carb because their
body had damage so they need to keep themselves lower i know for myself my damage was so much
that i actually need to keep myself at under 18 in order to keep myself in a ketogenic state
and because i know that and i want to make sure that i'm successful often i keep myself under 10.
when we consider that over the last 30 40 50 years depending on how old you are when
you're watching this video we've been over eating the sugar over eating carbohydrates
it's scary when we think about the fact that most of us feel fine but then do we
really feel fine one of the biggest problems with metabolic internal damage is that you can't see it
and it it kind of creeps up on you slowly slowly over the course of years which means that you feel
fine because it's happening so slowly until you don't feel good and it's like a punch that you get
and all of a sudden you're sick all of a sudden you're diet pre-diabetic and diabetic and being
pre-diabetic versus not being pre-diabetic when you're walking around in your everyday doesn't
feel that different because it takes so long for you to get there even if there are physiological
things happening that are uncomfortable we get used to them think about the fact that
we don't realize that we're winded climbing the stairs or winded chasing our toddler around until
we have the toddler to chase because most of us don't chase other people's children around
until we climb some stairs because most of us take the elevator so we wouldn't know
until we tried to do this activity that we can't do this activity without being like i can't do
it anymore and even for the weight you'd think you'd notice that you gained weight but you don't
you look at yourself every day so you're not going to notice a pound every other month
and i can be the example for this one because i can tell you that i had no clue
how much weight i had gained until pat took a picture of me and i was like whoa that's what
i look like in other people's eyes and why would i take a picture of myself i spend all
my time taking pictures of the kids so i didn't have a clue okay but now i'm getting off topic
why aren't you in a ketogenic state it turns out that the average person eats about 350
to 450 grams of carbs every day so just for clarity 454 grams of carbs
is a pound and it's easy to do because we're constantly eating processed food
we're constantly eating fast food and we're constantly eating junk food you know like chips
and cookies and ice cream which not one person can tell me that there's value to eating those things
on a regular basis all of these things are high in carbohydrate because sugar is a great preservative
and it also helps with the taste and texture of a lot of the things that we love to eat
there are three critical things that we're going to need to solve
because of the amount of sugar that's in our diet the first one is carbohydrate addiction
carbohydrates stimulate the same part of your brain as alcohol and other drugs
which then allows the release of neurotransmitters dopamine serotonin that cause you to feel good
but they also cause you to depend on them to feel good which means if you don't have them you
actually feel withdrawal by eating high carb foods on a daily basis by drinking high carb drinks
by sweetening everything we have access to this dependence causing addictive substance
every single day that means we're feeding our addiction every single day the solution to this is
eating a keto or carnivore lifestyle because when i take my carbs down to 20 grams or less each day
i'm below the threshold that doctors say is necessary for that release of neurotransmitters
to happen which causes the feel good hormones to start flowing right so i'm taking the addictive
part of my food out of the story and that allows the addiction to the carbohydrates or the sugars
in your life to subside the second issue that we need to solve is carbohydrate overload
carbohydrates are toxic to the body in large amounts which means that when we eat carbohydrates
since our body strictly regulates them as soon as we eat them we've overloaded the body a little bit
so what does our body do quickly it intervenes and starts to use some for energy
and it stores the rest away as fat to neutralize it when you eat a keto or carnivore diet your body
has an easier time managing the small amount of carbohydrates are coming in because your body uses
more than the energy that can be provided by 20 grams worth of carbs it actually ends up using fat
that's stored on your body to make up some of the difference from the carbs you used to eat
which again is very beneficial to you because it helps you to lose weight the third issue
that actually gets solved by eating a keto diet is the fact that carbohydrates
block the body's natural build and repair cycle and this happens because when you eat
carbohydrates we tend to overeat because again we're addicted to the sugar right so our body is
pushing us to get more pushing us to get more because it wants that neurotransmitter release
it wants to feel good but when you eat processing of food is energy intensive repairing and building
the body is energy intensive so my body tends to choose which one it's doing at what point in time
if i constantly eat my body has to prioritize processing food because once i've eaten it
it needs to be taken care of and so repairing and building my body gets put on hold
so if i'm constantly eating i'm blocking my body from repairing itself which is really
important because if my body doesn't repair problematic cells repair you know just just living
my life i get damaged the same way just driving your car you get damage it's not because you hit
something the working and turning of things causes damage same thing here but my body does that daily
if it can my body will do it hourly if it can if i'm not processing food so we're blocking
our body's desire to keep us healthy remember that's the most important thing that your body
is focused on is keeping you healthy a healthy keto and carnivore diet and i just realized i'm
mentioning carnivore in this but i hadn't really said that carnivore is just a subset
of keto whichever way you decide to go a healthy keto or carnivore diet allows us to eat the
amount of energy that my body needs because i'm not chasing carbs so i'm not overeating
which then means i'm having less time during my day where my body's processing food
which means i have more time during my day where my body can actually build and repair me
by solving these three issues it's amazing how you're going to improve your health
improve your life because when i'm not over eating sugar my body doesn't have to get rid of the sugar
somehow and it's option that it prefers is to store it away as fat so right away any weight
issues that i have start to get solved because my body can start using the fat that's on board
rather than storing energy that i don't need to store i'm going to build a better quality
violet because i'm eating protein and fat more so than i'm filling up on carbohydrate protein
and fat is what builds my healthy body which then translates into better functioning internal organs
if my internal organs are functioning better that means my health is actually better i'm gonna see
the results of that i'm gonna have clearer skin i'm gonna have nice nails and nice hair
i'm gonna have energy like i said earlier i'm gonna have less pain which was the biggest benefit
for me that that that that keeps me on track that i don't have the pain that i had four years ago
keeps me on track eating healthy keto helps the body to thrive
in order to do that you need to be committed to eating 20 grams of carbs or less each day
but you can't do that if you're still addicted to sugar so this video right here is going to
help you to get your sugar addiction under control click on the link i'm going to meet you over there